Facts Hunt

It all happened when Pope Gregory XIIIordered a change from Julian to the Gregorian Calendar in 1582, they had to cut down 11 days! Therefore, days were cut out between 2nd and 14th September 1752. But the government ended up paying for full 30 days. Find out why it was done so.

Since our childhood days, we have heard stories about many legends with incredible strength lifting huge objects with their unmatchable body structure. 'Hercules' for example is often depicted as a symbol of Strength. Even now we can see people with huge bodies competing in events to be the strongest man on the planet.

But the strongest man ever lived in the recorded history wasLouis Cyr. He was a famous French Canadian Strongman who has achieved lot of fame by his strength and the most extreme, he carried nearly '2 Tons' on his back!

As you all know, Internet is growing at lightning speed. The information stored on the net is Humongous. Every second millions of bytes are added all over the world. The immense data and knowledge on the net is growing at a mind-blowing rate and even estimates are proven wrong every second.

Have you ever wondered, 'How big is Internet? How many websites are there on the Net? Total size of the data accessible on the Web?'. Come let us take a tour to find out just how mammoth this Virtual Universe i.e Internet is?

As a matter of Fact, Internet (www) has grown exponentially and is still growing at a rate which cannot be imagined. Day by day the number of people accessing Internet from their Desktops and Mobile devices (Tablets, Smartphones, Laptops etc. . .) is increasing at a rapid pace due to Technological Innovations.

As the World is now 'MOBILE', the mobile users are set to overtake the Desktop users soon in 2014. If we take tablets and Mobile device users together, then they have already overtaken the Desktop users in 2013 itself!. So, let us take a small tour looking at world-wide Internet usage Facts, Figures and Statistics of 2013.

On the 7th night of July 1947, anUnidentified Flying Object (UFO)crash landed near Roswell, New Mexico. First leak-out of the incident was that a 'Flying Disk' was recovered. But soon, U.S military attributed this incident to the crash of a High-Altitude weather balloon. The news faded away and after 30 years, this incident became one of the most controversial conspiracy theory around linking Alien and UFO's.

'Axolotl salamanders' belong to neotenic species which are extensively used in scientific research due to their ability to regenerate limbs. Majority of these salamanders are found in Lake Xochimilco, Mexico City. They are often called as 'Mexican walking fish', but they are not fishes.

'Val Camonica' is one of the largest collection of rock paintings in the world. The paintings which are called as petroglyphs are prehistoric or ancient. meaning that they were created or drawn as early as 10th millennium B.C. i.e 10,000 B.C (12,000 years ago).